Wagon



(No Model.) Hl JUST.

- WAGON.

No. 534,109. Patented Feb. 12,51895.

.iNiiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMANN JUST, OF Pf/IILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WAGON.

SPECIFICATION fOrmng part Of Letters Patent N0. 534,109, dated February12, 1895..

Application led July 25, 1894. YSerial No. 518. 539. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN J Us'r, a citizen ot' the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wagons, which improvementis fully set forth in the following specification and accompanyingdrawings.

My invention consists in providing the body of a wagon with a framehaving a circular channel therein, said frame being attached t the oorof the wagon body at a suitable point between the ends thereof, wherebythe front or steering wheels can be turned freely for the purpose ofmaking short turns, and other advantages are presented, as will behereinafter set forth.

Figure l representsa plan view of a wagon having the frame embodying myinvention attached thereto. Fig. 2 represents a section thereof on linex, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a perspective View of the frame detached,and Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of one of the brace piecesemployed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre ,s sponding parts in theseveral figures.

Referring to the drawings: A designates the body otv a wagon, and Bdesignates a frame which is attached to the bottom thereof, and consistsof the raised portion C, having a segmental channel C` therein, and theperpendicular and oblique sides D and E, which are bolted, screwed, orotherwise connected with the" cross sills F and G, the latter beingattached to the bottom of said wagon body, which is separated to form arecess for receiving said frame C.

H designates braces which conform to the contour of the top of the frameA, and embrace the same, as most plainly shown in Fig. 2, said bracesbeing bolted or riveted to the sides of the body, thus strengthening vthe same, especially adjacent to the recess which is occupied by theframe B.

It will be seen that when the front wheels are turned, either of thesame will enter the' channel C', and move freely therein -to a greatextent without liability of contacting or rubbing with the walls ofthe-same, this being particularly occasioned, owing to the wideningnature of said channel from top to bottom, and as said channel may becontinuous, as it is in the present case, the wheels may be turnedentirely through said c hannel, (when the shafts or tongue are or isremoved) for placing the hounds in inverted position or back of theaxle.

It will also be seen that While the portion C of the frame'projectsupwardly into the body of the wagon, it does not `occupy much of theroom of the sanne, and thus does not interfere to any material extentwith the loading of the wagon.

I am aware that it is old to provide a Wagon body with a recessedportion in rear of the front wheels thereof, and to provide the outerends of the walls f such recess with arched frames, and such'I do notclaim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. An attachment to a Wagon `body, consisting of a hollow segmentalframe, formed `of a top portion, a depending perpendicular front Walland a depending rearwardlyinclined back wall, said segmental frame beingopen below andentirely from side to slde,

and the parts combined substantially as dej-v,

scribed. 2. A' wagon body having atransverserlecess in the under side ofits body, a hollow segmental frame open from below and/side `toscribed.-

HERMANN JUST. 4 Witnesses:

' JOHN A. WIEDEESHEIM,

B.. H. GRAESEE.

